Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure I spoon feed you sweetness when you’re weak & overworked. I don’t mind as long as you spoon me in the soft glow of dawn, yellow light on the skin of dreams. Skin to skin is how I’m nourished, how bones &...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure When no one was looking, you hid a mango in my mouth, green with growth. Overnight, it ripened into a sunset. Like you, it begged to be swallowed whole. You’d asked me to save you a sliced share, I know, but I couldn’t....
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure I paint my lips with cheerwine fine and seduction and fingerspell you to sleep with silky palm and butterfly kisses. And there is God in this place tonight. That is undeniable. The sounds we make shake dust from the...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure “No,” says Tamara when she sees the yarn. “No, Cal, you’re not.” “I am,” I say. She shakes her head, exasperated, already exhausted with me even though she’s only just gotten home. I narrow my eyes at her, daring...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure It don’t gotta be all puppies and kittens, altars and status updates, #smitten. Just make sure you get me a fruit cup, spiced the way I like it from the mango-man on the corner. Come in while I bathe talkin’ about my...
